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    in school and later went to college and getting a master degree plus a well-pay career bring you wealth. Being poor to wealthy or being rich and staying rich as a child to an adult‚ does the wealth usually bring you happiness? In the novel "Great Expectation‚" Pip is a character who as a child become a wealthy person from a poor background family. As he grew up in a poor childhood‚ an opportunity came up for him to become rich and surely he took that opportunity from a secret benefactor which was

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    Revenge‚ Sometimes Better Left Alone Society perceives revenge to be a one-way street to get back at someone‚ where only the single person ends up getting hurt. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens exemplifies revenge as a devious act that causes multiple people to get hurt. Miss Havisham received a broken heart on her wedding day‚ and ever since‚ she has been scheming a way to get back at the male gender. The likes of Miss Havisham and Orlick are set on exacting their revenge on someone

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    Summary 40-42 Pip feels a mixture of revulsion for the convict and fear for the convict’s safety. Apparently‚ someone followed the convict the night he arrived at Pip’s apartment and later Pip stumbles over someone hiding in the dark at the bottom of his apartment stairs. While the convict has come to England to see Pip and enjoy flaunting the gentleman he has made‚ Pip tells him he is in danger and that they need to lay low. The convict tells Pip his name is Abel Magwitch and that he is using the

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    In an arm-chair‚ with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand‚ sat the strangest lady I have ever seen‚ or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials‚—satins‚ and lace‚ and silks‚—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair‚ and she had bridal flowers in her hair‚ but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands‚ and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses‚ less splendid

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    life? Great Expectation is a classic and romantic novel that depicts the personal growth and personal development of a poor orphan child. Pip is one of main characters and he has two important expectations: to becoming a gentleman and marrying the beautiful Estella. Charles Dickens included in this book topics like‚ the difficult to win the love‚ wealth and poverty‚ romanticism‚ rejection‚ contemporary issues of social justice and inequality and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations

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    Prince Eric she will become a mermaid again‚ but Ariel can’t bear to kill him and commits suicide by throwing herself to the sea and turning into sea foam – a very different conclusion from the family-friendly Disney version. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is another fairy tale that doesn’t have a very conventional ending. His novel makes it clear that these tales do not have to follow the same path as others just to be good. Using satire and poignancy‚ Dickens spins a story with both typical

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    Great Expectations The title of Charles Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ refers to Pip’s many expectations. Pip expects to inherit money‚ but he first has to be educated a gentleman. Pip has “great expectations” of himself and Jaggers also tells Pip that “he is a young man of great expectations”. During the time of his education‚ Pip focuses too much on himself and values too little what he already has. For an example‚ Joe always lets Pip talk to him and Joe never takes advantage of Pip

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    Pastrana‚ Christine D. October 14‚ 2013 III-13 BSE English English Literature The Great Expectations Charles Dickens Synopsis: The Great Expectations takes its readers to an extraordinary journey of an innocent common boy‚ Pip‚ who later becomes an ambitious young man whose dreams and desires extend far beyond his reach. His “expectations” are fueled by his love for a rich beautiful lady and are ignited by the chance given to him by a mysterious benefactor. The story begins

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    become a phenomenal novelist in his later years. With joyful early years‚ a rough later childhood‚ and a heartbreaking experience‚ Dickens reflects on it by writing the novel Great Expectations. Dickens had an amazing ability to give readers a good grasp as to what the novel explains‚ in true detail. Great Expectations shows a rather large resemblance with Charles Dickens’ own life and experiences‚ and also describes Dickens’ thoughts of love and of social class. Dickens uses a former love named

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    “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love‚ Love the One You’re With” Love‚ as much as any other theme or motif‚ drives the storyline of Dickens’ Great Expectations. As the naturalists of the era believe‚ characters are the products of their circumstances‚ and so Great Expectations is an exploration into the psychology of a young boy‚ based on the circumstances into which he is placed. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ is motivated by love‚ the love of a young girl named Estella. However‚ while he tirelessly

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